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"Towards the end of the war, Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann, a soldier in the German army is lost in the Ardennes Forest searching for his regiment. They had been in a battle and most had been slaughtered. Bachmann had been sent to the hospital and declared unfit for combat because of mental problems. Unwilling to accept this, he ran off and is now looking to rejoin his comrades. In the woods he meets a deserter. He takes him back to his unit, and tells them his story,but the officer is not willing to deal with him.
He is shipped off to Norway with a letter instructing the officers there to keep him for awhile and send him back. Before he can be returned, he is gulled by a Norwegian spy to help him blackmail the family of a partisan, and then kill them all. When Bachmann realizes the nightmare of what he has done, he recognizes that perhaps he really is insane. He decides to return to the hospital and see if they can cure him. When he gets there, he discovers that they had really found him to be sane in the first place.
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Jack Goodstein, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
War/Revolt/Disaster on civilians
Yes
Conflict:
- War, WW II
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- mentally ill
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Main Adversary
Identity:
- society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 (some)
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Scandinavia
- Germany
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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